In 1971, Deep Purple decided to produce and record their album Machine Head in Montreux. The group was also scheduled to record at the Montreux Casino, shortly after Frank Zappa performed. During Zappa's concert, the venue caught fire and reduced the Casino to ashes. (Funky Claude) Nobs saved several young people who had hidden in the casino, thinking they would be sheltered from the flames. Nobs, who had served as a volunteer fireman, knew that the casino was not actually a safe place and acted immediately to get them out. This act earned him a mention (in the line "Funky Claude was running in and out pulling kids on the ground") in the song "Smoke on the Water", which is about the incident. Also, on the inner liner of the original album, Nobs' picture was the only one labeled with a name other than those of the band members themselves.

The riff is pretty much the first riff every guitar player learns. You could totally do it! You should react to 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple.

"Child in Time" one of the greatest rock songs ever written.

Arguably, the most played "riff" in Rock history...

This song is based on a real event. Great classic rock!

I love Lex's party girl attitude. She's a 60's and 70's girl at heart.

This recording is a remastered version with a different guitar solo than the original, and a lot of added imbellishments. The original version is, in my opinion, much MUCH better. The live version from Made in Japan is particularly amazing. Next Deep Purple live version of Child in Time. It illustrates much better why Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were the fore-fathers of British hard rock and influenced everything that came after.

Lex is a trip " sometimes I wake up and want to make crumpets" she's killing me lol.

Lazy by deep purple is an absolute gem. A must listen! Edit: I'll vote for child in time too

Listen to DEEP PURPLE "Child in Time" Live 1970

"I wanna make crumpets"😂😂😂 Highway Star and Child in Time are grrrreat!!

This is the version from the 1997 "25th anniversry edition" which has a bonus CD with remixed versions of most of the songs. "Smoke On The Water" tells the story of the Montreux casino burning down during a Frank Zappa gig after a fan shot a flare into the straw ceiling, after which Deep Purple, who were supposed to record their next album (Machine Head) at said casino. Claude Nobbs ("funky" Claude in the song) found them a new venue to record in the shape of the Montreux Grand Hotel, which was closed for the winter and had no heating and terrible access. It meant the Rolling Stones recording truck couldn't get through the main gates and the lads had to go through some shenanigans to go and listen to what they recorded...

I love how lex is vibing out like she’s straight from the 60’s whilst Brad sits there in a confused trance like state !

You've probably heard it from Guitar Hero. They're from the UK. This was their biggest hit and was everywhere back in the day, and is based on a true story of a major fire during a recording session in Montreux. Check out "Lazy" or "Child in Time". The latter has some absolutely crazy iconic vocals from Ian Gillan. Cheers!

They are from the South… of England! Lol such an amazing band.

Seeing Lex’s reaction is the perfect remedy if you’re having a bad day…. 😎👍

You need to listen to Deep Purple "Child In Time" Now

The most Legendary quitar riff of all time :) , i suggest "Child in time" best song of all modern time in my opinion

That's the riff that everyone who even knows or has been around a guitar player growing up in the 70's and 80's could play.

I love the little smile Lex gets when the beat drops on a song she likes

Thank you because this reaction actually made me think of a memory I haven't thought of in a very long time. When I was first learning guitar and showing my dad what I had learned he was so excited. He told me he always wanted to learn how to play smoke on the water so I looked it up and showed him how to play it. I remember the smile on his face when he finally got it right. It was a very happy moment in time for me. Thank you for making me think of it.

Deep Purple's Lazy is so much fun to listen to..enjoy!

"Highway Star" is a full bore high speed rock song. Lex might need a straight jacket on this one though... lol

Deep Purple has so many great songs. You can dive into them and not run out of good ones for a while.

The riff in this and Iron Man are usually the first riffs people want to learn on electric guitar!! There's a huge difference in playing electric and acoustic 😁 Cheers Couch Gang 🍻

These two are becoming experts in classic 🎸 rock . The young ladie jams .

This is one of the most iconic rock/heavy metal songs around. Deep Purple are an English band and have been around since the late 60s! Awesome sound.

I am loving Lex, she is such a free spirit with so much energy. I also dig her taste in music.

The live version of this song from the album Made in Japan is one of the best live recordings ever made in my opinion.

The best version of this song was recorded live during the group's tour in Japan, 1970.

“Child in Time” classic song by Deep Purple with a musical rendition you’ll never forget. The keyboards get shredded!!!

You can't beat deep purple, up there with led Zeppelin and black Sabbath for me!👍🤘🎸🙏❤️

Child in Time, Space Truckin', Hush, Child In Time, Speed King, Burn, Highway Star(my favorite). You can't go wrong with Deep Purple. So glad you are getting into this deep rabbit hole! Great reaction! This was a true story. Someone below I'm sure explained it better than I ever could.

LAZY is a must listen !! I love you guys so much ,

Stunning riff ever heard absolutely awesome

Nice reaction guys!!! You know, when Ritchie Blackmore played the guitar riff and solo - Jon Lord the organist played his Hammond organ through a Marshall amp (which is basically an electric guitar amp). Result: you bascally hear two "guitars". Song is a true story. DP were to appear "in the hotel" in Geneva, Switzerland and the hotel caught fire (details, see the lyrics :-P ).

I really enjoy you guys and your reactions. Very insightful and Lex is a treasure with her perkiness. Just keep doing what you are doing.

*Just so yall know, yall are legit my favorite reactors!

In those days people really knew how to party! I saw Deep Purple open a concert for Jethro Tull Doing Aqua Lung with Smoke on the Water. What an incredible night. By far the best concert I'd ever been to. Life was so much fun back then. I feel sorry for the kids today. They really did miss some great times. Great video! Thanks and Best Wishes!

I love watching these guys having fun with this music. Lex is so sweet.

Gambling casino in Switzerland. This version is the alternate one. Guitar solo is different as is the ending.

This has got to be the world's most iconic guitar riff.

When the drums & bass first kick in behind that iconic guitar riff, i have to crank it up ! Can't help it !!!

The lyrics recount a true story. Deep Purple were scheduled to record tracks for what would become the Machine Head album (from which the song comes) at the Montreux Casino on the shores of Lake Geneva. The complex was going to shut down for its annual winter break and Deep Purple had rented the Rolling Stone Mobile Studio to record with. The night before, the band was attending a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention when a fan shot a flare gun in to the ceiling of the theater Zappa's band was performing in, catching the rattan covering on fire, which quickly spread eventually burning most of the casino complex. The band were forced to find another recording venue, which they did a couple days later and they were able to complete most of the tracks for Smoke On The Water and some tracks for other songs on the album. Beside Frank Zappa, the Rolling Stones are mentioned ("rolling truck stones thing, referring to the mobile studio), as is the now late Claude Nobs. the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival (Funky Claude) who assisted several concert attendees in evacuating the building. Zappa and the Mothers lost most of their equipment in the fire. The chorus "Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky" refers to what the members of Deep Purple saw after they'd evacuated to the other side of the lake, smoke rolling across the surface of the lake and the flames from the casino rising in to the air. The opening riff is fairly simple and can be played with barre chords in a pinch, although many music shops often (jokingly or not) ban people from playing it as they've heard it thousands of times. Part of the heaviness of Deep Purple's sound come from the interplay between Ritchie Blackmore's guitar and Jon Lord's organ, often playing the same chords, filling out and adding depth to the sound.

"No matter what we get out of this" ... probably one of the greatest hard rock album 'Machine Head' by Deep Purple.

This song was on the "Machine Head" album, considered one of the top 2 or 3 rock albums of all time. Other songs on the album, which I liked much more than Smoke on the Water were Highway Star, Lazy and Space Truckin'.

I'm almost 60 years old, a white dude, but half Latino and nothing makes me happier than reactions to old music. My second favorite thing is finding new music and trying to understand it. You are both adorable. Keep up the great work. Smashing the subscribe button.

Love your reactions! You appreciate music so much! Thankyou! 😉

Always loved how the instruments came in one by one

I've been trying for a couple of weeks to get you to check out Deep Purple. Lazy is the one I like best, but Highway Star or anything from this album is great. This band is like Led Zeppelin in that every member of the band is one of the best at his craft. They've developed different sounds over the years and you can pretty much tell which era a particular sing is from, just by the sound.

U Guys are so Fun o watch!🌪 Lex’s got the Vibe!🔥 So Adorable❣️

Love the reactions from you guys . More Deep Purple

This is actually the first song I ever learned on guitar 😂

When we were kids we thought the chorus was "slooow walking Walter...fire engine guy" hahah!

Summer of '73, I was visiting my aunt in California, and I remember hearing this song on the radio for the first time. That guitar riff was unforgettable!

Lex makes me laugh out loud nearly every video! Thank you for that! Brad you cool too

We need more classic Deep Purple on this and all reaction channels.

This band is very Dope. You're gonna love them.

Saw them in concert, rocked out!!! Everyfan all over the world.

I understand Lex's moods! Love y'all's channel!

Richie Blackmore with possibly the MOST Iconic riff in all Rokc n Roll History...tuff to the bone!

Deep Purple holds the record for loudest concert ever at 117 decibels.

true story. that's what we've been told all these years. through trial and tribulation they ended up recording their most iconic album of their careers. and one of the best albums in Rock History. rap used to sound all the same to me. until i started to unpack the lyrics and the beat. it is ALL so good. i listened to only rap for over 20 years. and Punk Rock. but now i am going back to the old stuff from my life as a teen. and i found you two listening to my music and doing your thing. i fell in love with you guys and i try to watch as often as i can. (btw, Deep Purple Machine Head is the very first tape i ever stole for a girl in high school. it was the last time. she took it and walked away. i said never again. and i have stuck to that.) hahaha

One of the most influential bands EVER! LOVE THIS BAND!

Excellent Classic Rock!

Deep Purple was my second concert, Perfect Strangers tour.

In 70s Deep Purple held official Guinness World Record as loudest band on Earth for a gig they did in London! Rock n Roll Hall of Famers in 2008! 👏🔥🙏😎

Just gotta love that synchopation! I can just see Lex sitting on Brad's shoulders at Glastonbury totally rockin' it!

Deep Purple really hit big in the early 70s I was in the Air Force at the time and me and 8 of my buddies lived off base and we all had these huge stereo systems with reel to reels and turntables we would sit around drinking Boone's Farm wine, beer and smoke a lot of weed those were the days

deep purple-child in time live (1970) amazing performance so is a must,so many great tracks to choose from tho,lazy,highway star,mistreated,burn,rat bat blue,to name just a few,hoping you delve down the deep purple rabbit hole and do a few reactions to this awesome band and my favourite band ,keep up the good work guys,much respect from the uk

Great to see you enjoying it Brad !! #realevent

Probably the most iconic guitar riff of the 70's! Seemed every bar bad that existed then did this song!

Its probably the most famous riff ever. It’s been in like a million things since it’s release! You’ve prolly heard it multiple times on multiple occasions. This is the riff like every person ever first learned when they learned to play guitar haha

❤️❤️❤️ Deep Purple 💜 was the Best!!! A Very Talented Amazing Rock Band!! I'm not even going into how many Amazing Songs they released, they were ALL Good!!! Thx for the Reaction!! Check out More Deep Purple!! The Best thing about "ROCK" is you can pick an choose how hard ya wanna go

The "mobile" was the a mobile recording truck which was owned by the Rolling Stones. It was essentially a traveling studio. Deep Purple wanted to record at a hall in Switzerland to capture it's sound on record, on Lake Geneva. Frank Zappa played a show the night before they were all supposed to set-up and someone in the audience fired a flare gun, causing the hall to catch fire. The album "Machine Head" was the result, and they had to move to a wing of an abandoned hotel to finish the record.

You know this track is rooted in a true story? They went to Montreux in Switzerland to record. The version off the Made In Japan album is often said to be the best recording .

"Sounds so familiar" That's because it's one of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time...

This is one of those rifs that every kid who learns when learning to play guitar

The audio quality that yall load up from your songs is excellent

🎸💯 Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" kickz azz‼This was my favorite song for years & STILL registers VERY HIGH‼It's amazing to me how quickly they wrote this & got it "out there"! 🔥🤯

Whole Machine Head album is awesome. Would love to hear Brad analyze “Space Truckin’” and Lex jam to “Lazy”. Didn’t even mention “Highway Star”. But agree with lots of others that “Child in Time” would be a fun reaction to watch.

This was literally the first song I EVER learned how to play on guitar. I felt like an 11 year old God

You're so right, a lot of rock does sound different- Deep Purple were that emergence of British hard rock heavily based on blues so it has a lot of blues feel whilst still rocking hard with riffs. It was a bit unusual for a hard rock band to have such a lead keyboard sound- Jon Lord also liked to play a bit of Back mixed into some of the rock. Deep Purple were a British band, the sound at the end was Jon playing the hammond organ.

Lex really understands music.. It's nice to watch.. thank you!

I think you guys might like Thin Lizzy too. I recommend Jailbreak (or maybe Dancing in the Moonlight, or maybe Bad Reputation)

Love your reactions. Most of Deep Purple songs are as good as this. Should reàct to Child In Time, Space Truckin', or Lazy.

This is a true story , thanks for upload 😃

For many, many decades this was my favorite song, especially when I had my JBL speakers back in the 70's. And then I heard Disturbed doing The Sound Of Silence.

What you guys thought was a harmonica was probably John Lord banging out a solo on his keyboard. And the guitar riff is the stuff of legends…just don’t play it when you are the Guitar store--you will get the evil eye from the staff….or worse.

first riff all guitar players learn 🤣🤣

The live version on "Made In Japan" rocks even longer...love your reactions!

I think the best guitar riffs inspire people to start playing guitar … doesn’t matter if they’re simple or complex riffs. This one must be top 10 for inspiring new guitar players. Such a great riff.

It's weird... I've never heard this version... I'm sure it's not the final or official one, but the solo sounds waaay more like Ritchie than the original one. I guess it got refined to it's final version, Wich to me is one of the most iconic solos ever

LOL! That is usually the first riff people learn how to play on the guitar. It is easy

IN MY ORPHANAGE WHEN I WAS A KID THE ORPHANAGE DIRECTOR HAD A PRETTY GOOD MUSIC SYSTEM, SO A NEIGHBOR WHO LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS AND DIDN'T LIVE IN THE ORPHANAGE WOULD COME AND LISTEN TO HIS DEEP PURPLE CASSETTES ON THE MUSIC SYSTEM. THOSE ARE MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF DEEP PURPLE. THANK YOU, AND GOOD NIGHT.

Commence rabbit hole. About twenty Deep Purple songs deserve a reaction video. "Space Truckin'", "Lazy", and "Burn" should be among the first. Watching Lex on this is worth the price of admission.

Brad is the rational part that examines and analyzes, Lex is pure emotionality. I love you.

"When a Blind Man Cry", "Soldier of Fortune", "You fool no one" and many others.

Oh Lex, I love your smile and how you feel the music.

Some of the comments tell you the story. One of the most Iconic song ever. Probably the most learned Riff in Guitar History. 😁💗🤘